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OUR FRIEND THE DOG 



haps by antiphrasis, the startling 

 name of Pelleas. Why rechris- 

 ten him? For how can a poor 

 dog, loving, devoted, faithful, 

 disgrace the name of a man or 



an imaginary hero? 



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Pelleas had a great bulging, 

 powerful forehead, like that of 

 Socrates or Verlaine; and, under 

 a little black nose, blunt as a 

 churlish assent, a pair of large 

 hanging and symmetrical chops, 

 which made his head a sort of 

 massive, obstinate, pensive and 

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